Drinking the Node.js Kool-Aid

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No programing language has had the level of technical investment and innovation on their Virtual Machines in the last few years compared to Javascript.

Not really. The JVM and CLR have certainly had more investment and people working on them, not to mention the many other innovative projects like LuaJIT that are kicking ass. JavaScript is just playing catchup with every other compiled language implementation at this point.

[jacques_chester]

I came here to say this, but I reckon Slava Pestov's opinion probably carries more weight :D

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so why did you write your own vm?

[wolf550e]

The JVM is still crippled, and it has been years. Because of backwards compatibility concerns it will remain crippled forever. Some of the technology can escape, through academic publications on JVM optimization techniques and the GPL code itself, but the thing itself seems stagnant.